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Nov 28 2023 // New Jersey’s insurance regulator has approved a 3.9% reduction in workers’ compensation and employer liability rates starting January 1, 2024.The approved statewide rate change is based on the latest financial...
Dec 5 2023 // War risk insurance premiums edged up for Red Sea voyages after three vessels were attacked in the area on Sunday and fears grow over worsening perils for commercial shipping, maritime and insurance sources said on...
Feb 5 2024 // No one can predict the future, but insurance professionals are likely the best qualified when it comes to predicting risk. For this special report, Insurance Journal asked industry thought leaders their predictions for the...
Apr 19 2024 // With its personal lines business benefiting from the impact of rate increases earning into the book, and the commercial lines insurance premium changes staying in double-digits, Travelers reported $1.1 billion in net...
Jan 11 2024 // Executive Summary: Companies need to enact long-term performance measurement and strategies for underwriting discipline across the underwriting cycle because evidence suggests underwriters will not impose it themselves,...
Feb 5 2024 // While not news to independent agents, commercial lines renewal rates rose again in the fourth quarter of 2023 — another sign that the hard market is here to stay — at least through 2024.According to the Ivans...
Nov 30 2023 // Overall commercial property/casualty premiums increased slightly more than 8% on average in the third quarter, marking six full years of steady increases.According to The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers’ Q3...
Dec 12 2023 // As claim severity rises, US personal auto results are on the decline, according to AM Best’s latest Market Segment Report.The 112.2 net combined ratio in 2022 for personal auto was an almost 11-point deterioration...
Jul 12 2024 // Catastrophic events, such as major hurricanes and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, traditionally have led to hard markets that in turn drove the formation of startup reinsurers to fill capacity needs. Reinsurers launched in...
Sep 26 2024 // Millions of Americans have been watching with growing alarm as their homeowners insurance premiums rise and their coverage shrinks. Nationwide, premiums rose 34% between 2017 and 2023, and they continued to rise in 2024...
Feb 13 2024 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation next week will hold hearings on two property insurers’ requests for 54% average rate increases, one of which has already affected more than 105,000 condominium unit...
Oct 29 2024 // Executive Summary: During the period 2013 through 2018, the U.S. did not become less litigious nor did Atlantic sea surface temperatures get less warm. Yet rates for U.S. excess liability and Atlantic hurricane both...
May 16 2024 // Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the central bank is unlikely to raise its key interest rate in response to signs of stubborn inflation and underscored his view that price increases would soon start to...
Mar 19 2024 // The Bank of Japan (BOJ) ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on Tuesday, making a historic shift away from its focus on reflating growth with decades of massive monetary...
Mar 4 2024 // There are reasons to be optimistic about the small business insurance market. New businesses are opening their doors every day. Small business start-ups are booming with record-breaking new business applications reported...
Feb 22 2024 // When Allstate’s Florida unit, Castle Key Indemnity Co., entered the surging condominium insurance market in 2020, it looked like it had made a smart bet: Within two years, the carrier had added no fewer than 123,000...
May 24 2024 // Though A.M. Best remains bullish on the delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAEs) market, it remains cautious of the risk managing general agents (MGAs) bring to insurers.In its latest market segment report, the...
Feb 15 2024 // Reinsurers in general maintained adequate capacity for casualty programs, despite concerns about social inflation and some recent reserve strengthening actions, according to a report from AM Best.For reinsurers, a...
Oct 24 2024 // The U.S. home insurance industry has experienced an upward trend in all-peril loss costs over the past seven years, according to a new report released by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.The ninth annual LexisNexis U.S. Home...
Jul 3 2024 // State Farm has applied for large rate increases in California, a year after the carrier got rate approvals of 7% and 20%—adding fuel to a burning homeowners crisis in a state that’s seen an increasing number of...